Thursday, November 14, 2013

Starz - Software Developer

*Primary Responsibility**:*   

Word on the street, Starz is taking you
places. The horsepower that accelerates this premium entertainment company
to new places is a nimble technology company. Over the last year, we’ve
built not 1 but 3 new online subscription video services distributed over 3
platforms from the ground up. Wouldn’t you like to take a peak and see
where Starz can take you?

If you’re a rugged individualist that can analyze, build and enhance
flexible and scalable backend services then this is the place for you.

*Essential Duties and Responsibilities:*

·        Develop, scale, and stabilize backed services.

·        Contribute to the design, architecture and implementation of
backend infrastructure.

·        Invent flexible solutions to challenging technical problems with
an eye on the future.

·        Diagnose, debug and solve issues in production environments.

·        Collaborate with project managers, quality assurance, and other
developers in an open, creative environment.



Desired Skills and Experience

*Education and Experience: *

·        Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar field; Minimum
seven years professional software development experience.

·        Expert level programming skills, using Java and C#.

·        Experience with at least one major database system (MS SQL
Server, MySQL, Oracle)

·        Minimum two years experiences with a MVC paradigm; and/or
training; and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.

·        Experience with Open Source technologies, such as Hibernate and
Spring; Spring batch a plus.

·        Experience with JAXB, CXF, Quartz, JUNIT.

·        High levels of competency in core software development concepts.

·        First- hand experience and strong understanding of Web Services,
REST and SOAP required.

·        Thorough understanding of development tools like Eclipse, SVN,
JIRA, Bamboo. IVY, SoapUI and Visual Studio experience a plus.